This comment is based on two recently published reports from the Constitution Unit, University College London, prepared by Professor Robert Hazell and the writer. This work followed a 2016 study ‘The Queen at ninety: the changing role of the monarchy, and future challenges’, which charted the further decline of the sovereign's personal constitutional powers and analysed the remaining functions. While the subsequent exercise was principally directed at examining the royal accession and coronation oaths, work was also undertaken to research the context of the oaths. The outcome was the two reports published in May 2018: ‘Swearing in the new king’, on the oaths, and ‘Inaugurating a new reign’, an account of past coronations and an analysis of the factors that might influence the shape of the next coronation. This article is in two parts: the first concentrates on the next coronation; the second examines the three statutory oaths that a new sovereign must swear, taking in also the traditional non-statutory personal declaration made at the sovereign's first Privy Council meeting. The first part concludes that the next coronation cannot be on the scale of the last and that the rite, although remaining Anglican-led, must find ways to reflect Britain's greater religious diversity. On the oaths, the second part points out that their imposition of personal duties was predicated on a constitutional situation where the sovereign was still head of the executive, rather than now, at most, speaking on its behalf. Granted the present, utterly changed position of the sovereign, alternative reformulations are offered for discussion and, absent amending legislation, suggestions are examined for how announcement clarifying their current meaning might be undertaken.

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为下一次加冕做准备

该评论基于伦敦大学学院宪法部最近发表的两份报告，由罗伯特·哈泽尔教授和作者编写。这项工作是在 2016 年的一项研究“九十岁的女王：君主制的角色变化和未来挑战”之后进行的，该研究描绘了君主个人宪法权力的进一步下降并分析了剩余的职能。虽然随后的练习主要针对检查皇室加入和加冕誓言，但也开展了研究誓言背景的工作。结果是 2018 年 5 月发布的两份报告：“宣誓就任新国王”，宣誓就职，以及“开启新的统治”，对过去加冕典礼的描述以及对可能影响下一个王位形态的因素的分析加冕。本文分为两部分：第一次集中在下一次加冕；第二部分审查了新君主必须宣誓的三项法定誓言，同时还考虑了在君主第一次枢密院会议上作出的传统非法定个人声明。第一部分的结论是，下一次加冕礼的规模不能达到上一次的规模，尽管仪式仍然由英国国教主导，但必须找到反映英国更大宗教多样性的方法。在宣誓时，第二部分指出，他们对个人义务的施加是基于君主仍然是行政首脑的宪法情况，而不是现在最多代表它发言。鉴于目前主权完全改变了的立场，提供了替代的重新表述供讨论，并且在没有修改立法的情况下，